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A NURSE who has overcome Covid is gearing up for a monumental challenge to raise money for mental health services. Respiratory specialist Cheryl Smith has worked with acutely ill patients in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee during the pandemic. She was also struck down by the virus herself. Now recovered, she is in training for a massive charity challenge – hiking the 550 mile Highland Trail across terrain with a total elevation gain of 54,700ft. Spread across some of Scotland’s most challenging terrain, the climb is equivalent to almost double the height of Mount Everest. Smith, fr...

Country Life Trending: Welcome site: a lone bothy at Loch Stack in the Scottish Highlands. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Once frequented by farm labourers and shepherds, lone bothies — often located amid some of Scotland’s most remote countryside — offer a welcome (and sometimes secret) refuge for wanderers, says Freda Lewis-Stempel. In the same way as the astronomer watches for the North Star, the ‘bothyer’ watches for a chimney. The grey stone stack stretching up over the rise of the glen is the guiding sight that the long walking day is coming to an end. There, th...